As the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on education becomes severe day by day, it is the deprived who are put to the maximum disadvantage. Since schools are shut, classrooms have moved online. However, only those children can attend classes whose families have the luxury of possessing multiple mobile phones. The situation has left underprivileged children in a state of misery.

However, a group of students from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has taken the initiative to help a few such children. For the last 11 days, around 15 students of JNU have been regularly visiting Madhukar Basti, a slum in Munirka locality, and teaching over 30 children there. The unit of Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) from the JNU is spearheading this initiative, named Basti Ki Pathshala.